Theodore Riccardi

Ted Riccardi is professor emeritus in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York. He began teaching at Columbia in 1968 and served as chairman of his department and as director of Columbia's Southern Asian Institute in the School of International and Public Affairs. Among his special interests are the history and cultures of India and Nepal, where he has lived and traveled widely and about which he has written extensively. He has received a...See more

Ted Riccardi is professor emeritus in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York. He began teaching at Columbia in 1968 and served as chairman of his department and as director of Columbia's Southern Asian Institute in the School of International and Public Affairs. Among his special interests are the history and cultures of India and Nepal, where he has lived and traveled widely and about which he has written extensively. He has received a number of research awards, including grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Ford Foundation and Fulbright fellowships. From 1980 to 1982 he served as counselor for cultural affairs at the United States embassy in New Delhi. In 1999, he took early retirement from Columbia to raise a new family and to write. Riccardi lives in New York City with his wife, Ellen Coon, and their family. They spend as much time as they can in New Mexico. The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes is Ted Riccardi's first work of fiction, a tribute to his favorite mystery writer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. See less